The SABC will hear on Monday whether an order compelling it to air a summary of a judgment in favour of the <i>M&G</i> will be suspended.
President Jacob Zuma has appointed four non-executive members to the board of the SA Broadcasting Corporation to serve until 2015.
The SABC is appealing a ruling by the BCCSA in favour of the <i>M&G</i> all the way to communications authority Icasa.
A current affairs outside broadcast was on Saturday abandoned when a group of people wearing ANC T-shirts stormed the hall and disrupted proceedings.
The BCCSA has dismissed an application by the SABC to appeal against an order that it correct an unfair report on an <em>M&G</em> journalist.
Six SABC staff members were suspended this week after being captured on camera in a "sting", in which one of them allegedly asked for a R200 000 bribe
The SABC must broadcast a stinging reprimand from the BCCSA on prime-time television for failing to give the <i>M&G</i> an adequate right of reply.
When the BCCSA ruled that the SABC had breached its code in reporting unsubstantiated allegations against the <i>M&G</i>, our reaction was delight.
The BCCSA has upheld the <i>M&G</i>’s complaint against the SABC regarding its broadcast of Robert Gumede’s claims of corruption against Sam Sole.
The BCCSA has reprimanded the SABC over an interview it flighted last year, in which John Sterenborg and Sam Sole were accused of corruption.
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/ 25 February 2011
The wife of Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande, SABC executive Phumelele Ntombela-Nzimande, has become the latest casualty at the broadcaster.
Manipulation and distortion by SABC news managers inevitably skews the end product.
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/ 11 February 2011
The SABC has appointed Jimi Matthews as its television news head and Mike Siluma as head of radio news, the broadcaster said on Friday.
In desperation, broadcaster abandons its mandate and imitates commercial stations.
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/ 11 February 2011
The SABC and the <em>M&G</em> locked horns before the BCCSA about a broadcast in which Robert Gumede accused a reporter of corruption and racism.
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/ 27 January 2011
The exposure in court of political manipulation by the SABC in favour of the ANC in 2006 was on Wednesday welcomed by Sanef.
The South Gauteng High Court has ordered Icasa to relaunch a probe into alleged political interference at the SABC in 2006.
Embattled former SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle received a settlement of R3,4-million following his resignation on Wednesday, the SABC said.
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/ 21 January 2011
Solly Mokoetle allegedly received close to R3-million as a settlement. But sources say he will walk away with "virtually nothing".
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/ 21 January 2011
The SABC’s reporters are "pathetic", and the broadcaster is like a patient with multiple organ failure, the founder of SAFM said on Friday.
The SABC’s head of news, Phil Molefe, has broken his silence to defend himself against accusations that he kicked off 2011 by purging staff.
The public has a right to know the details of the financial settlement bestowed on embattled former SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle, Sanef said on Thursday.
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/ 26 November 2010
Senior managers at the SABC have been targeted for retrenchment as the public broadcaster sets about pruning its R78-million annual salary bill.
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/ 16 November 2010
The draft Public Service Broadcasting Bill needs more work various concerned groups said during public hearings on the legislation on Monday.
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/ 12 November 2010
The SABC’s acting chief operations officer, who was caught on security camera eavesdropping on a board meeting, has stepped down from her post.
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/ 12 November 2010
The battle for control of the SABC has taken a new turn, with some members of the ANC lobbying for the dissolution of the of the broadcaster’s board.
New Minister of Communications Roy Padayachie wants to foster a partnership with the private sector and create a spirit of working together.
Government plans to centralise media buying reveal an attempt to channel advertising to "patriotic" media, insiders say.
Documents show that the communications authority knew as early as 2007 about the ‘illegal’ Sentech spectrum deal, but did not act.
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/ 25 October 2010
"In the most significant Media Freedom Week since 1994, the South African media is caught in a moral dilemma," writes <b>Rapule Tabane</b>
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/ 22 October 2010
Ambassador to Germany and Telkom chairperson have been fingered in ‘illegal’ deal.
Eleven reporters have been killed in Somalia in just two years — uniquely dangerous conditions under which media workers operate.